Wagner Moments: have you had one? For the last 150 years the music dramas of Richard Wagner have deeply moved, thrilled, and amazed listeners everywhere—so much so that it has become a tradition for fans to share their peak "Wagner moments." The author of a listener's companion and concordance to Wagner's Ring Cycle, J.K. Holman here assembles 107 such moments, anecdotes, and reflections from Wagner devotees past and present, famous and not so famous. Marcel Proust, for example, once noted, "The more legendary Wagner is, the more human I find him, and in him the most magnificent artifice of the imagination strikes me only as the compelling symbolic expression of moral truths."